Hi experts,

I'm running VMware 7 on a Windows 7 64-bit host and trying to get an XP Pro SP3 VM to connect to my network. I have no success with either Bridged or NAT.

VMware NAT Service is running on the host. Assigning a static IP to the VM from my router does not help. Disabling Windows Firewall on the host and guest does not help. VMware Bridging is enabled on my host's Ethernet adapter. Antivirus monitoring is disabled on the XP guest.

This all worked just fine when I used Vista x64 and VMware 6.5. By the way, I have created a brand new VM with the W7/VMW7 combination and it acts just the same way. My Windows 98 VM works with NAT. Been at this for hours on end and no threads I've read have helped.

I am new to VMware server 2.0.

I downloaded VMware and installed windows XP. I read that the old version of VMware allowed to map a host OS folder that was made visible as a drive letter inside the guest operating system. Is this feature available in version 2.0 ? If so how do i turn it on?

I know you can easily do this with shared folders but i don't want to share folders in the guest operating. The reason is shared folders are susceptible to virus attacks.

Appreciate your help in this regard.

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